In our obituary of Maryam Firouz (page 35, March 31), we said her daughter Afsar had predeceased her. That is not the case. Apologies.
Leeds United: Our article, McAllister gets new Leeds deal (page 6, Sport, April 4), wrongly suggested that Leeds United FC has been guilty of abuses of insolvency regulations. This is untrue. We accept that there were no breaches of such regulations in connection with the 15-point deduction that was made at the start of the 2007-08 Football League season. We apologise to Leeds United for any embarrassment caused. 
MSNBC is a US cable news channel, not a US television programme (
The market capitalisation of the US investment bank Bear Stearns was once again misreported when we said it was once valued at $70bn (Does anybody know what went wrong?, page 6, G2, March 24). As we pointed out in this column last week, it was worth about $25bn at its peak and its highest value in the week of its collapse was almost $7.5bn.
Penguin audiobooks will not be copyright-free, as we said in a headline. They are to be free of digital copyright protection technology, allowing them to be downloaded on to digital devices. Unauthorised copying of the audiobooks will still be a violation of copyright (Penguin audiobooks to be copyright-free, page 24, March 4). 
Mount Baldy, where Leonard Cohen spent time at a Buddhist retreat, is not in Greece, but in the San Gabriel mountains, about 40 miles from Los Angeles (Hail, hail, rock’n'roll, page 14, Film & Music, February 29).
We should have said that Sven-Goran Eriksson was trying to defuse, rather than diffuse, what we described as “a powder-keg moment”; he was trying to make things better, not worse (Eriksson begs fans to forget differences for only 60 seconds, page 5, Sport, February 9). 
Shock tactics, page 9, Environment, February 20, included a quote: “when you put the kettle on, there is a horrific jump (from 200 watts) to 2,000 kilowatts. That’s scary.” More scary than was intended; we meant to say 2,000 watts or 2 kilowatts, not 2,000 kilowatts. 
In Cameron warns farmers of global food shortages, February 19, guardian.co.uk, we reported that the Conservative leader said people in China and India are eating more meat, which means less grain is needed. In fact he said that the increase in the consumption of meat means that farmers now feed 250m more tonnes of grain to their animals than they did 20 years ago. 
Hypatia of Alexandria lived around 400AD, not BC (Meet the mothers of invention, page 16, G2, February 1). 
Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder and CEO of the internet security company Kaspersky Lab, was never a “KGB man” or a lieutenant in the KGB (The ex-KGB man stalking the cybercriminals, page 5, Technology, January 31). He studied cryptography at a high school which was then co-sponsored by the Russian department of defence and KGB, and went on to work for the department of defence. 
It was Vivian Fuchs who crossed the Antarctic in 1958, not Klaus Fuchs as we said (The events we choose to mark tell us who we are, page 34, February 9). Klaus Fuchs was the nuclear physicist jailed for espionage in 1950. 
A graphic with a report on Afghanistan (page 8, February 6) should have said that 6,500 Afghans, rather than Afghanis, had been killed in 2007. An Afghani is a unit of currency. 
We mistakenly described nitrous oxide, one of the byproducts of an engine powered by liquid hydrogen, as being environmentally safe (The hypersonic plane designed to reach Australia in under five hours, page 9, February 5). It is a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. However, the developer, Reaction Engines, has a research project under way to devise ways of eliminating or capturing all of the NOX elements produced by the fuel. 
The medical research paper reported in an article headlined Chiropractors may be no use in treating back pain, study says, page 11, November 9, actually made no mention of chiropractors. The study, conducted by the University of Sydney, looked at the effect on acute lower back pain of various treatments, including spinal manipulation - a therapy used by a range of healthcare professionals. In this study the manipulation was given by physiotherapists. 
Las Vegas is in Nevada, not California (In pictures competition, photograph 3, Statue of Liberty outside the New York casino in Las Vegas, page 95, Weekend, February 2). 
In an article ‘Get rich quick’ property training course throws caution to the wind (Money, page 8, March 31, 2007) we did not intend to suggest that Win Investing recommends tax evasion. We also accept Darren Winters’ assurance that he did not sell pyramid investments as a student at Exeter University. 
A picture caption with the obituary of Edward Dutkiewicz (page 37, January 31) implied that Henri Matisse had multiple sclerosis. This was not the case: the use of his hands was limited by arthritis. 
Marlon Brando would probably have flaunted his sexual conquests rather than flouted them, as we had it in our obituary of Christian Brando, page 31, January 30. -
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